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Oil majors told to adapt or die
Nature & Environment

Oil majors told to adapt or die

...Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon's 126 person crew. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)] At best, big oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and BP face a period of gentle decline, but will ultimately survive. At worst, if they do not adapt and change direction, “what remains of their existence will be nasty,...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...multiple and often serious mental health problems. [On Sept. 8, 2015, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, USA] The first and most significant radical alternative to prison is to introduce social policies that are directed at meeting human need and addressing the harms of social and economic inequalities. This means shifting away from a punishment-orientated response towards...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...multiple responses to questions, people leaving, arriving, eating, smoking, paying attention or not, staring into space, starting separate conversations, sharing words or not, pauses, glances and knowing and unknowing asides. These different modes through which I got access to the participants of the Hong Kong Occupy camp were linked to their very different conceptions of...
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How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...multiple initiatives to improve diversity in STEM, women still remain under-represented at senior levels across every discipline. But while I agree with much of what the report goes on to say, I disagree on this first point. It is not astonishing at all. Academic institutions are some of the oldest workplaces in our society – some dating back to the Middle Ages. The...
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Public health communication during a pandemic
Languages

Public health communication during a pandemic

...multiple languages used in communities. Organisations like HealthWatch are vital in this process, supporting local communities and individuals navigate the mass of information, while also listening to health service users’ experiences and advocating for their needs. In a digital era, social media is proving instrumental in getting the message across. From hashtag...
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Melanoma: an emerging concern
Health, Sports & Psychology

Melanoma: an emerging concern

...multiple colours, should raise suspicion for melanoma. Non-healing sores: Persistent sores or ulcers that do not heal may be indicative of melanoma. Itching or bleeding: Moles or lesions that itch, bleed, or become painful should be promptly evaluated. Diagnosis: The diagnosis of melanoma involves a process of looking at a sample of the cells under a microscope. Key...
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...multiple steps that involve making sense of the guidance and accepts that people and organisations may be at different stages of implementation. In order to examine how people understand the Ambitions framework, we have been talking to them about the language in the document. Here we have heard that people recognise the Ambitions as value statements that reflect...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...multiple concepts often link together (such as mass, weight and gravity), so to fully understand one concept, a student may also need to understand other related concepts. Language can cause issues, particularly when scientific terms from different topics are similar. For example, students regularly confuse ‘gravitational field’ with ‘magnetic field’ or confuse...
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